The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-11-25
THE HUNT BOLT.
A Response to Inquiries as to Gov.
NiChoIIs' Connection with II.
The Attempt to Disfranchise Seven
Thousand Democrats In the
Interest Of a BOIter.


New Orleans States.
We are in receipt Of & letter from the town
Of Flournoy, signed by number Of citizens
Of that place and neiRhborhood, asking us IL /
it is true that Gov. Nichols made speeches
in favor Of the Hunt bolt in 1884, Our |
correspondents say that the fact is denied, |
but that II it is true, many persons in that |
section Of the State who have favored Gen. |
Nichols will support Gov. MeEnery.
In reply to our Flournoy correspondents, |
several Of whom we recognize sc old friends, |
we state positively that Gen. Nichols did |
make speeches in favor Of the Hunt bolt, and |
that he gave all his influence to aid that |
utterly unjustifRble and indefensible revolt |
against the regular Democratic party at |
time when the election Of q President was
supposed to hang upon even one State, and !
that that revolt threatened the success Of the !
democratic party in Louisiana. 1t is need |
Less for ns TO runmage over old newspaper
files for the reports Of Gen. Nichols speeches
in favor Of the Hunt bolt which our friends
ask us 70 send them or to defy ths ex-GoY-
ernor himself, or any Of his supporters, to
deny the fact that he made speeches in favor
Of the bolt, since be and his spokesman,
Judge White, have themselves admitted that
he not only did 80, but used all his great per-
BonAl influence TO defeat Col. st. Martin, the
nominee OF the regular convention, and as
true, stainless and upti1nching q Democrat
as ever trOd the soil Of Louisiana
But though We cannot comply with the re-
quest Of our friends q FlqqTnoy to send
them reports, Of Gen, Nichols speeches in
favor Of the Hunt bolt, we reproduce, in an
other column Of this mornings stQies an
| editorial printed il his special organ, the
| Picag1gle, on che morning Of Oct 81, 1884,
| headed, Gen. kiCholIS to the Front, . by
which our friends will see that Gen Eieholls
! was not only conspicuous orator and
| worker IN the Hunt bolt, but that he was
| also, at the very time that the presidential
RIp
| Of the Democratic State administration. We
| press upon the attention Of our friends at
| FlouTnoy and elseWhere throughout the
| State the editorial referred to.
| Immediately after Coy. McEnery's nomi-
nation in 1888, Gen. Nichols organ, the
! PigQYbgte had appealed TO the Democracy TO
bolt that nomination and vote for his Radical
| opponent, Stevenson; and at the time OF the
| appearance OF the editorial We to-day repro
| duGe and Of the speeCh OF Nichols to which
| it reterB the PjeGBH3e, Nichols, and the
| great body Of the FefOFmeTB, were engaged
! in On organized and determined effort, aided
| and abetted by IL. 9. Yarmouth, the negro
/ Radical chief, Jim Lewis, United States bu-
| pgryisOr Norton, and the whole Radical GUS
| tOmhOuBe gang, to defeat the ctlon OF the
! regular nominee Of the Democratic conYen-
| ton Of the First District,
| This is fact. We defy any living man TO
| deny a single word Of it, II our friends at
| flOurnOy or anywhere else IN Louisiana
| doubt it, we recommend them to submit thls
| article TO Gen. Nichols himself end challenge
! him 10 Enbwer categOrlc8lly, whether u Is
! true, word for word, or not. He cannot. he
| will not deny that every WOrd Of what we
| say il absolutely true.
The StnJes has time and again exposed the
! character Of the Hunt movement in IS and
/ Gen. Nichols connection herewith. But
! there ID one, the last phase Of it, which We
| have never exposed In all EtB atFOCltyr KOm a
! Democratic BtandpOinti and that ls-tAe a.
| tempt Of the leaders Of that movement, the
leaders of the then so-ealled Reform Demuc-
| TRgy, the chief captains OF the present re-
formers or NichOllsitesr 10 disRraHchlBe 1000
Cleveland aud 81. Martin voters in the First
! District by invoking the aid OF the infamous
I'he roformeTs Of 1884, and their organ
| which bOltBd, and advised everybody else 70
! bolt, the nomination Of Gov. MCEnerg in
| 1888, like the refQrmsfs Of 1857, assumed
| at the outset that the people we're with them
| But as their canvass progressed, they ols-
covered their mistake; and, in the qeapefa-
ton of their disappointment and bitterness
they broke through all Democratic bounds
| and resorted 10 the very WoTBtof those tactics
that had rendered RRdicattsm in Louisiana 10
odious They had but oue hope q success,
and that JglS 70 afsfUlci,t2e 4setg tslJo11 PEN;
Ocrats The Federal election law offered
them the means Of doing this. g.,
This so-called law was one OF those 'tFultl
/ o. foul rebellion that IhAu, StcTenF, cary
Pitor the war, declared we should eat. j
Vas, along with oRrpet-baggery, neRro-suf;;
frsRe and BCSllHwREgeTy, part OF tle cargo u
recguHtruction-tha ''Derfdiou8 bark built
sent among us in tue dr. rkest era Of our his
tory, by our CqnQuCrors IN their most nailg
uaut mood. This Ubiquitous EtaTute Es6 de
UuuuGed by every Democrat IN ting Union
by every Democrat in Congress- by the OHll
two Democratic members Of the SapTeId'
Court Of the United States, BY every jyeLo
cratic newspaper 10 the broad Inns OF WI
| republic, gGgPE5t the tte4 DTggJI 81 tle TetN'L
DFrauCyuts CT the rerO18leyS and GEN Aieh
CLs tg-dNy- the Nttg Orleans PiCugytTe,
ia 1884 the PiCGyURe declared that thl
AtntutG wAs not only the law, but that y we
q yyiss and beuedoent law. aud that tn
Democrats Of the First District dnInapued ~
b invocation. And, as We nave saiei b4e lthl
ers OF the Hunt bolt Or the ret9fm DelDge
racy did iuvOaate it. By precisely The REtn
means that tho Radicals under the same lhN
gnglad out thnBe DEMOCRATS they desired 2
! | disirauehiBC these reform leaders AlnRle
2 %bo 390 tSo g' d5sFe6 e dSaaeRao
0 called upun the Federal authorities to Qrqe
= HE State Supervisor OF Registration 10 stl4s
their names Oft the FegistrhtQn LEI. " "
attempt to enforce this n4Qutous order w
4 Federal Authorities number Of tllnes ~
4 rested the supervisor Of the sovereign stat
d | OF Louisiana, who refused to obey Tue ordeI
G finally the reform Leaders appealed p e
4 Federal Court to enforce Their demand
y made through Federal deputy 1aafshaIs an
the Federal supervisor.
The lehder5 OF tGe Democracy fepresente
by Senator j. d. EuGtig, aided by Mr. LAIR
O,DouneN, resisted the conHumlnNton
| this outrage. Ia his speech MI. Bu59$ Bal
y to Don a. Pardee Inc tGdefal Junge' tgAt
he dared to give his Judlelel- saneteoh "
" mOnhtruus an outrage upon the rlEhgs
y American citizens az WaB contemplated !
81 lhe demand Of The Tefornersy ~ Hould WI
Z his name upon higher and blaSkef plAlhac
y "a itFamy than had even the dIRgraeed az
II n needless to say thai even Judge Pc
Z, dee, bitter Radical, and an QldfGsblonfi
M partisan judge, tot'4a tne aenlat9 ~ I,
q bGn 10 countenanee: and he, the hadlea
Y partisan, Federal JUDGE sqHalehed tlle VINO
h thug. -, s,,,,or,o
9 ,rg SiSTS 5sitag. we defy the New 0rleal
Y FttlgRlEe 10 deny that ii Endorsed this pr
"a CeedinR cordially aud openly; 1bfl Y &
~ elarcd the Eed8r4l election law % ~ VI
" XIII Hisf staglt9, and held that the Demo
w racynf Louisiana delnandtd lts inYot&9o
IA Weehnllenue any refGrmeT to-day % qel
" th&t tliis measure WAS taken ~ 1854 Ply 4
IA gillpo,iers Of Nr Hunt.
w Ve 40 not know Hist Gov. klohoHs Tps
q marty 10 fhe Transaction, but We 90 knf
~ thgt he WAS q supporter OF the HpnF inOA
W Ipeltt. and We do know shat hls voice, thou
~ Ie wa on Tire hustugs in the INST l@ls,fiS
~ and though lie VAS in the coJuels Of (
,ttns KefOim Democrats, YAB never lltsu " " "
N hsst against this attelnptee 9utfase, W. y
~ fher know that nowhere ID ne on record
u oppnginR OF cORdGmnilR TIKI OUTRAGE. y
"a word from him would hays stopped any ~
w nroeeeding Re never spoke tlt word 4
~ 4 N was left 70 Senator Eusth 10 defend !
N Mated outrage, and 10 a Federal taqle
" pariisan nudge to siueieh the Att2pRt
t4eh. Nichalsi supporters 70 tlstEjtlieisi
~ nDder one Of the most 1nAQ1AtQHs eg1tptes
~ reconstruction legIslaupn, 1000 1ienloefa
tl~ voters ia one CONVERSATIONAL district.
VA What have our hEQurnoy flteaae q w
.t,f this? And we challenge any 4Alhs HeA
,nts deny q single word " It.
sts COY. Nieholis 70 the Front.
.nF pieaytine, Oh abt 1884.
Gen, Nichols app cared UPON tns pa -
at mn tbiid ward ineet!Ing 81 tAs t,etg
Democracy iaet piahil elsa Aas llsil VI aSN
snretih as fIiigsiit have been eNpsctet t1oal
6aTo I'M pEtriot NO nl5n ~ iiqAlsiahsa 4
s@Eses tf such u degree the eatesia aAq x
ldenca pf ths pe9ple, Alle, ai5sls TX as9s III